sbot 2025.0.1

The robot API for the Smallpeice summer school

sbot

sbot - SourceBots Robot API

This is the API for SourceBots, library for writing Robotics APIs. It will first be deployed at Smallpeice 2023.

Installation

If you wish to install openCV from your package manager, you can install the base package with:

pip install sbot

To install the full package, including openCV, you can install with:

pip install sbot[vision]

Usage

The main entry point for the API is the Robot class. Intantiating this class will automatically detect and connect to any SR v4 boards connected to the device. By default, the Robot class will wait for the start button on the power board to be pressed before continuing.

from sbot import Robot

r = Robot()

To disable the waiting for the start button, you can pass wait_for_start=False to the constructor. The wait_for_start method needs to be called before the metadata is available.

from sbot import Robot

r = Robot(wait_for_start=False)

# Setup in here

r.wait_start()

Developer Notes

There are a number of considerations that have been made in the design of this API. Some of these may not be immediately obvious, so they are documented below.

• The API is designed to raise exceptions for incorrect actions, such as trying to modify the output dictionary or assign a value directly to the motor object.
• MappingProxyType is used to prevent the user from adding, removing or overwriting keys in any parts of the API that return a dictionary.
• tuple is used to prevent the user from adding, removing or overwriting items in any parts of the API that would return a list.
• __slots__ is used to prevent the user from adding, removing or overwriting attributes in any parts of the API.
• sbot.serial_wrapper.SerialWrapper handles automatic reconnection to the serial port if the connection is lost and impleents 3 retries on any serial operation before raising a BoardDisconnectionError.